Instructional Technology - Core Knowledge Resources

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	General Integration of Technology for Core Knowledge

Grade Level	Tech Integration Ideas
Kinder	Podcasting: Help students come up with a jingle or rap about a topic. Record this. Other Podcasting ideas: Poems, Cheers, Information, Recitation of events (North America) Smart Board Ideas: Fill in the blanks on a map with continents or other land masses Students color areas of map-land forms Students sort items such as cloths to wear in which season Use this resource for the First Thanksgiving on the Smartboard-this is an excellent resource to teach the "real" first Thanksgiving. Click this link for Kinder Tech Links As Well Excellent First Thanksgiving Resource Scholastic Thanksgiving Interactive-Great Site Native American Sites
First	Podcasting: Help students come up with a jingle or rap about a topic. Record this. Other Podcasting ideas: Poems, Cheers, Information, Recitation of events Smart Board Ideas: Fill in the blanks on a map with continents or other land masses Students color areas of map-land forms Sort geographical terms, and features Classify living things into their proper environments using the gallery images *Play the Online Electronic Circuits Game on the Smart Board Click this link for 1st Grade Tech Links As Well Click here for Living Things Tech Links Ancient Egypt Sites Ocean Links The Online Electronic Circuits Game
Second	Podcasting: Help students come up with a jingle or rap about a topic. Record this. Other Podcasting ideas: News Reports, "Did You Know" Poems, Cheers, Information, Recitation of events Digital Stories using Windows Movie Maker on researched topics. Also, on possibly the life of a greek person, or the life of a drop of water. Smart Board Ideas: Fill in the blanks on a map with continents or other land masses Students color areas of map-land forms List uses of water Draw the Water Cycle Draw the stages of matter Write an interactive story about a drop of water Online Map Game: http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/usaquiz.html Online Interactive World Map: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/ Click This Link for 2nd Grade Tech Links As Well Insects Links Ancient China Links Online Cells-Come Alive! Weather Online Activity Simple Machines Online Activity Virtual 3D Insects!


	General Integration of Technology for Core Knowledge

Grade Level	Tech Integration Ideas
Third	Podcasting: Help students come up with a jingle or rap about a topic. Record this. Other Podcasting ideas: Poems, Cheers, Information, Recitation of Continents, rivers, how ancient peoples lived, what it was like being explorers, what it ws like being a pilgrim or a Wampanoag, or setting up a new world. Digital Stories using Windows Movie Maker on researched topics. Also, on possibly the life of a greek person, or the life of a Viking. Digital story about the life of a new settler in the first person. PowerPoint: creating a fantasy animal but using real classifications, Research of an explorer, research of a colony, or an early american, or an aspect of early america such as early life or food, or play, or school or work, or chores, or clothes. Smart Board Ideas: Online Interactive world map: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/ How the Body Works activities on the Smart Board Do activites in the Virtual Body site on the Smart Board-Students can do Play the "Build an Ecosystem Game" on the Smartboard Sort rocks and minerals images from the gallery into the three categories Using the SmartBoard, interact with the websites below Click this link for 3rd Tech Links As Well Ecosystem Learning "On the Prairie" Jamestown Online Adventure Volcanoes Greece Websites for Children Rome Websites for Children The Virtual Body Links How the Body Works Resource Human Skeleton Resource
Fourth	Podcasting: Help students come up with a jingle or rap about a topic. Record this. Poems, Cheers, Information, Recitation of battles, moc debates from the different judicial branches of governments. News reports from the battle field. News reports from England and the King. Reports about the Boston Tea Party and other topics leading up to the war. Digital Stories using Windows Movie Maker on researched topics. Also, on possibly the life of a soldier from the American Revolution or a Slave of that time or a plantation owner. Power Point: Research of an aspect of early America such as early life or food, or play, or school or work, or chores, or clothes. Also on what ife was before the war vs. what it was like after. A Movie about what they might have done if they were living back then. How might they have felt during that time? Put themselves in that place and time-writing and then perform that as a first person digital story. Smart Board Ideas: Fill in the blanks on a map with continents or other land masses Students color areas of map-land forms Use the activites & quizes from the American Revolution Site on the Smartboard Using the grid feature, design the homes of the kingdoms of the Chinese dynasties (Or any others) Click this link for 4th Grade Tech Links As Well The Middle Ages Links China Websites for Children Online Country Studies U.S. Presidents & Government Sites American Revolution Site Medieval Kings and Queens Sites Islam-ThinkFinity Search results for many different resources Aftican Kingdoms-ThinkFinity Search Results for many different resources Dynasties-ThinkFinity Search results for many different resources Arizona-A bank of websites pertaining to all things Arizona* Volcanoes-Cool site with Live Webcam Views of live volcanoes Volcanoes-Thinkfinity search for many student resources Volcanoes-List of Student interactive resources Electricity-Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits-Student Resources (interactive) Science Experiments for Chemistry, Earth Science, etc...Great site Matter-Different sub-topics for Matter Chemistry-Explore Chemistry Rocks and Minerals
Fifth	Podcasting: Help students come up with a jingle or rap about a topic. Record this. News Reports, "Did You Know", Poems, Cheers, Information, Recitation of events. Write, rehearse and record a moc debate regarding the war. Digital Stories using Windows Movie Maker on researched topics. Film reinactments of important treaty signings. Write and perform a story in the persona of a Civil War Soldier, or a child of that time. Take on the persona of a seed as it travels, through the different stages, and gets dispursed, etc. Tell the story of that seed as it travels and then ultimately becomes a plant.(this could be a podcast as well.) Smart Board Ideas: Activities with the Virtual Body Site Use the Gallery images to sort the states traveled for the Westward expansion. Use the Gallery Images to sort and identify states in the Confederate Army during the Civil War Play the Oregon Trail Game on the SmartBoard Click This Link for 5th Grade Tech Links As Well THe Lunar Cycle Game Plants Links Kings, Queens and Castles Links Virtual Body Site Space Links Human Body Links Slavery & Civil Rights Oregon Trail Online Anglo-Apache Conflicts-1861-1886 Online


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Grade Level	Tech Integration Ideas
Art	Podcasting: Help students come up with a jingle or rap about an artist or concept. Record this. Other Podcasting ideas: Poems, Cheers, Information, Recitation of Continents, rivers, how ancient peoples lived, what it was like being explorers, what it ws like being a pilgrim or a Wampanoag, or setting up a new world. Digital Stories using Windows Movie Maker on researched topics. Also, on possibly the life of a greek person, or the life of a Viking. Digital story about the life of a new settler in the first person. PowerPoint: creating a fantasy animal but using real classifications, Research of an explorer, research of a colony, or an early american, or an aspect of early america such as early life or food, or play, or school or work, or chores, or clothes.
Music	Podcasting: Help students come up with a jingle or rap about a topic. Record this. Poems, Cheers, Information, Recitation of battles, moc debates from the different judicial branches of governments. News reports from the battle field. News reports from England and the King. Reports about the Boston Tea Party and other topics leading up to the war.
PE	Podcasting: Help students come up with a jingle or rap about a topic. Record this. News Reports, "Did You Know", Poems, Cheers, Information, Recitation of events. Write, rehearse and record a moc debate regarding the war. Digital Stories using Windows Movie Maker on researched topics. Film reinactments of important treaty signings. Write and perform a story in the persona of a Civil War Soldier, or a child of that time. Take on the persona of a seed as it travels, through the different stages, and gets dispursed, etc. Tell the story of that seed as it travels and then ultimately becomes a plant.(this could be a podcast as well.) Smart Board Ideas: Activities with the Virtual Body Site Use the Gallery images to sort the states traveled for the Westward expansion. Use the Gallery Images to sort and identify states in the Confederate Army during the Civil War Play the Oregon Trail Game on the SmartBoard Click This Link for 5th Grade Tech Links As Well THe Lunar Cycle Game Plants Links Kings, Queens and Castles Links Virtual Body Site Space Links Human Body Links Slavery & Civil Rights Oregon Trail Online Anglo-Apache Conflicts-1861-1886 Online
Tech	Podcasting: Help students come up with a jingle or rap about a topic. Record this. News Reports, "Did You Know", Poems, Cheers, Information, Recitation of events. Write, rehearse and record a moc debate regarding the war. Digital Stories using Windows Movie Maker on researched topics. Film reinactments of important treaty signings. Write and perform a story in the persona of a Civil War Soldier, or a child of that time. Take on the persona of a seed as it travels, through the different stages, and gets dispursed, etc. Tell the story of that seed as it travels and then ultimately becomes a plant.(this could be a podcast as well.) Play the Oregon Trail Game on the SmartBoard Activities with the Virtual Body Site Tech can use all of these links to integrate into the technology classes curricular resources. Click This Link for 5th Grade Tech Links As Well THe Lunar Cycle Game Plants Links Kings, Queens and Castles Links Virtual Body Site Space Links Human Body Links Slavery & Civil Rights Oregon Trail Online Anglo-Apache Conflicts-1861-1886 Online
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